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When it comes to upstate locales to steal away for a winter vacation, the Sullivan Catskills offers bucolic mountain sights, cultural destinations aplenty, and a wealth of accommodations that range from the delightfully rustic to the luxuriously high-end. Here are five dreamy spots to cozy up for a weekend or a week away.

click to enlarge Coppersea Distilling’s wide-open outdoor farm space in New Paltz is a pandemic-perfect craft beverage hangout. Abundant in natural resources, once a vital thoroughfare of trade and travel, the Hudson Valley has long been a tourism destination, though the nature of its draw has evolved over time. In the 19th and early 20th century, it was a pastoral refuge for the wealthy and powerful, who built their estates along the river. In the early 1900s, crea...